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Heather 21 August 2025 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

Zero waste: how might we get there (or thereabouts)?

[Picture shows, left to right: Roberto de Carvalho, Petro Myburgh, Zukiswa Pikoli, Melanie Ludwig and Alison Evans on the podium at Maker’s Landing] This is human nature: we see “free” food – a hotel’s self-service breakfast options, for instance, or…

lorenzotf 7 July 2025 Featured Posts, Food Cluster, Ocean Cluster

Sustainable seafood: looking square at the barriers (and finding solutions)

In South Africa’s waters, says Dr Judy Mann of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation, more than 2 000 species of marine fish can be found. Around 320 of these (16%) are found only here. In other words, just as the…

Heather 27 November 2024 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

Sustainable seafood: making things possible

There are, after all, not so many fish in the sea, says Michael Farquar, CEO of the Two Oceans Aquarium. We have hopelessly mismanaged the ocean and its resources. But to some extent, we can put back the clock, as…

nicktf 5 April 2024 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

EVERY MOUTHFUL COUNTS

The scale of what we waste is eye-watering. Globally, an estimated 1,3bn tonnes of food is wasted each year. Every bit of every plant and protein that comes into our kitchens represents resources: all have taken energy, and water, and…

nicktf 27 March 2024 Featured Posts, General, Ocean Cluster

Keeping waste out of landfill

A landfill crisis is looming in Cape Town, as it is in every urban centre. The municipality has drawn a line in the sand in a number of ways , including banning organic waste from landfill by 2027. It’s not…

nicktf 13 August 2021 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

The plastics crisis

At the second Ocean Cluster session, held in July 2021, the focus was on one of the themes that had emerged in the first session: the impact of plastics on the marine environment. Background The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods was…